Pepsico and Neuberger
I enjoyed the Pepsico Sculpture Garden in Purchase, New York today after visiting the Neuberger Museum at SUNY Purchase, right across the street. The SUNY Purchase campus is terribly drab and depressing, war like, a place to contain humans. They have some nice works and the visit is short and sweet. Group shows in numerous genres are tricky to navigate. There is a nice Rothko there, and Rothko never wanted his work shown with the works of others. The problem with pluralism in our era of Reconstruction is that styles don’t often visually mix and match. It is difficult to walk through a group show and absorb the intensity of every artist when genre hopping with one’s eyes. I do this in my career but this is different from viewing a group of fifty or a hundred artists.
The Donald Kendall Sculpture Garden is free, friendly, and successful in many ways. There is a map with a clear path around the Pepsico headquarters building, which is interesting although slightly dated. Much of the sculpture however is intriguing and timeless, the design of the park flows, the landscape architecture takes the visitor through a myriad of vegetation and flowers, there are beautifully designed pools and the experience was excellent.
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